On that fateful day, the Vulcan ship T'Plana-Hath landed in Bozeman and its captain stepped out, giving Cochrane a devious hand symbol and deceptively stating "live long and prosper". A resident of Bozeman at the time, Cochrane "greeted" the Vulcan captain with a shotgun blast to the chest, and rallied the other Terrans in his midst to raid the Vulcan ship for their technology.